Close to Home by John McPherson for January 19, 2025

Probably close to how it happened.

We can all owe these guys a huge debt for their sacrifice !

i’d like to know who discovered artichokes were edible.

Bleeb is “tiny and yellow”!

Seems like they let the women do the tasting :(

FDA, the early years.

This is partially addressed in today’s Frog Applause (Www.Gocomics.Com/frogapplause/2025/01/18)

“Tombstones! Meet the tombstones! They are your oncoming des-ti-ny!”

Wait till they try Toad Licking !?!?

In the future, just don’t put ‘em on a pizza!

Well, I guess you have to start somewhere.

The original search for the magic ones. Hallucinating is better than dying.

Look for the one with a hookah smoking caterpillar.

Their methodology leaves mush•room for improvement.

Trial and error, mostly error, like blood letting. I would survive as I hate mushrooms of any variety.

Plaintain and chickweed are less risky.

Ogg want purple ones that grow on cow poo.

All mushrooms are edible.Once

Trial and error…..GASP!

I have always said mushrooms were poision

The opinion is out on durians.

“Amanita couple more volunteers.”

Artichokes are edible? Next thing you’ll be saying so are fried rattlesnakes and mountain oysters.

I would think bumping off all of your women as testers (look closely) would not be a great survival trait for the clan.

Mushroom roulette.

Can’t wait for oyster day!

Whoever thought that cauliflower is good for you dabbled in witchcraft.

You just killed off your women, so I guess you are a dead end branch of evolution.

Holy Shiitake!

Reminds me of partying in the 70’s and 80’s, there was nothing we wouldn’t ingest in search of the perfect buzz.

At least they’re being systematic about it. Hi, caveman Bleeb!

The original (no-so-Super) Mario Brothers?

Let us all celebrate the return of Bleeb!!! ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ (the comic was cute too, but I have my priorities.)

Kopi luwak

’nuff said

An excerpt from Ted Reynolds’ short story ‘Can These Bones Live?’, in which an alien race resurrects a modern woman onto an Earth so far in the future that all trace of humanity has vanished.

‘She had stopped going south. She had run out of things she knew were good to eat, and had to face learning all over again, or staying up where things were more familiar. It had come to her with a sort of unpleasant realization that there wasn’t a thing known to be poison that wasn’t found out by a lot of people dying rather unpleasantly.’

If you see sounds or hear colors from the blue….take a few

I guess “Mikey” wasn’t available…

YouTube.com/watch?v=zw9vCyhUgaY

Experiments in vivo used to be much more exciting!